August 24, 2018

There is a HUGE threat to pretty much all the retail sector, major parts of the health sector, and slices of a few others, such as banking and insurance. That threat is liability for data-breaches. The Street is one liberal judge away from a BAD crash, which WILL happen when one of the 77% of the Federal Courts' liberal judges decides to rule that all the phony, unconstitutional protections that companies have bribed into effect against liability for data breaches, ARE actually unconstitutional. Imagine YOU lost your identity to the hackers of Kohl's, Target or ANY company which, mostly for greed reasons, refused to use the best practices of information security. You have suffered a big loss, and if ALL your loss would be ruled compensible, you would receive somewhere in the five-figures area of compensation. Now multiply that figure by hundreds of millions, the TOTAL number of data breach victims. That adds up to doom for the entire retail sector, the health-care sector & probably the banking sector. The economy fails at that point. No one will invest in any company having had anything to do with digital records-keeping, which is pretty much everyone, isn't it?

Bottom line? The entire Bull Market Bottom Line can be removed by ONE Judge writing ONE opinion which survives thru the SCOTUS. No, I'm not going to tell you what to do if you can't invest. No, strike that, I WILL tell you, bercause that's why I blog! Buy land you can farm on. Buy guns to defend it with and buy plenty of beans and bullets for the Militia you will raise for that defense. NOW, I'm done warning you!

October 08, 2015

Various loosely-connected groups, most connected only by the fact that they have standardized their armaments, have announced that they will "Defend Roseburg" when POTUS makes his "sell the angst" trip there tomorrow.

Ummmm, okay then. Since the groups are using military terms, and will be armed with military-looking weapons (which they prefer to carry openly, don'tcha know), let's consider their operation from a military perspective (because you can be sure that the Secret Service and Homeland Security will).

A military operation is always preceded by an operations plan. Other than "show up", "Defend" has given adherents few instructions which could be considered part of an op-plan. One must presume that the "Defend" leaders will assign protest locations, etc, on the fly as their folks show up. This operation looks very un-military.

A military operation generally is led by leaders who have had experience leading other operations. There are two possibilities to consider here: Bundy Ranch and Sugar Pine Mine. Both of those operations were carried out by coalitions of Constitutionalists, with the organization Oath Keepers being the glue that held the outfit together. Let's look at Oath Keepers, shall we?

Oath Keepers started out about ten years ago (or that's when I became aware of them). Initially, they had one mission, to remind members of the military and police departments of their duty to their Constitution, and to do this, they promulgated a list of the "Ten Orders we must never obey". I signed their pledge, as did a number of my police buddies of the time. The Ten Orders are obvious, because they would be the orders of a dictator to facilitate a dictatorial coup d'etat and suspension of the Constitution. I still believe in Oath Keepers' proscription of those Ten Orders.

Bundy Ranch happened, then Sugar Pine Mine, and at the last one, the Oath Keepers appeared as a Militia from the start, and carried out an armed Militia operation, holding ground by force of arms. They never exchanged fire in either of their operations, but they were very well prepared to. They had good discipline and were "well-regulated" in the full sense of the term.

While I was encouraged by Oath Keepers' obvious good discipline in their first two Militia operations, what they did in both cases amounted to a staring contest, and the Federal forces blinked first, both times.

Oath Keepers is still not proven under fire.

They might get that chance, though, and within 24 hours, in Roseburg, Oregon. In case Oath Keepers hasn't employed any intelligence for their operation, I will give them the benefit of mine, which in the past, has involved working directly with the Secret Service's Presidential Protection Detail. I have actually gotten to inspect the Presidential vehicles and talk with the Special Agent In Charge of that unit (at the time, he was a good friend of the family).

The intel nugget for Oath Keepers: This will NOT be a Bundy Ranch or Sugar Pine Mine. You will NOT be dealing with some over-promoted BLM Enforcement Supervisor and his storm troopers. You will be dealing with the Presidential Protection Detail, which just happens to be the best at what they do of any such units. This Detail also has wide latitude to employ deadly force in the protection of the President. They do not have to issue deadly force warnings. If they detect a threat to the POTUS, they will shoot first, and they will kill. Period. End of story.

If the Detail has to employ deadly force against Oath Keepers, you can bet that every one who ever had the first contact with them will be heavily interrogated. I expect to be contacted in that instance, myself. The organization WILL be taken apart, and that will be the end of THAT story.

If you plan to travel to Roseburg tomorrow, here is the best advice from a freedom-loving patriot: Stay home. Don't loan your car to anyone to travel there, either. We patriots do have a mission which might eventually result in our defending our Constitution by force of arms.

Roseburg is not that mission. Oath Keepers may not be that militia, either. This could easily be their "bridge too far".

February 26, 2015

I own a fine urban-warfare pair of firearms in the 40 S&W caliber: a Glock G22 and a Kel-Tec Sub-Rifle 2000 set up for G22 magazines. I can shoot the 40 S&W effectively to 75 meters with the carbine, and push it to 125 with some effectiveness.

The problem is the round itself, which can't be hotrodded much, or so most gunnies believe. The hottest versions of this round are plenty steamy, and the carbine would handle them just fine, but they are made with very fast-burning powders. This tells me that a 16.25" carbine barrel might actually slow them down from the speed from a pistol barrel.

I want to load up some 40 S&W with a slower powder which will gain me max results from the carbine barrel. I will be using 180-gr Hornady "Hornady Action Pistol" JHPs, of which I have a goodly supply. I propose using something like 2400 powder, but am open to suggestion. I will ONLY be shooting these rounds in the heavy-chamber carbine, and NOT in the unsupported-chambered Glock.

March 03, 2014

Tom Clancy wrote about it, back in the bad old USSR days. Those days might be coming back. The question to be answered in 20 minutes when the Russian ultimatum for Ukrainian surrender of all Black Sea military facilities expires.

We'll just have to wait and see. If we and Europe go with economic sanctions to kill the Russian ruble, we can expect a blow in return. The US Dollar isn't in much better shape than the Russian ruble, so any effort on the part of Russia to destabilize OUR currency might very well work like they want it to.

Are you ready?

I would take the usual steps: top off your fuel tanks, pull some dollars out of your bank account because if the currency wobbles badly enough, Obama will knee-jerk and close the banks. Be prepared for plenty of economic uncertainty.

One more thing. Now we will get to see if all those Russian computer hackers really ARE part of an organized army as some have warned. If they are, we're going to lose our commerce for a while. WE may lose the Internet for a while. All those smart-phones? Toast.

We might just get to see how ready the US populace is for a down-home, 21st Century war without bullets and bombs. A cyber-war.

I'm not betting on the US. In such economic war, we get to see how tough and resourceful we are. I'm betting that if there is such a cyber-conflict, the Free Shit Army will not have the patience to wait it out and take some level of privation along with the rest of us who might be more prepared. They will want what we have in the way of prepared stuff.

In most urban areas, the various Governments are not prepared for this, and Militia will be required to keep order.

Or, the USA will simply raise the White Flag. Actually, of all the scenarios, and considering the present leadership, I expect some level of surrender on the part of our Government. We aren't prepared to fight Russia. Europe used to be, but 22 years of no USSR has given them a soft belly the same as ours. The most likely communique from Washington DC and Brussels will probably be a joint surrender.

Just know that Vlady Putin won't have any KY jelly when he comes for us.

February 27, 2014

Yep, I've been blogging for over 10 years now. I have 1.645 million pageviews. I've written over 4,300 posts, and I've accepted almost 6,000 comments. At the peak (in the bewb-blogging days), I had over 2,000 views per day, but average about a quarter of that today (most of the pageviews in the bewb-days were those using my blog as a source for soft-porn, and most of them from the Middle East).

I have shifted the direction of the blog twice, and I'm about to shift it again. It's about meaningful change, accent on the meaningful. When I started, I thought I was cutting-edge new: I had boob blogging, I had militia blogging, I had hard-edge conservative blogging. In the mid-late "oughts", it occurred to me that I was becoming a "nail that stuck up", and we all know that such nails attract hammer blows, just like trailer parks attract tornadoes. I toned down some of the more reactionary stuff, mostly the information on the best guns and ammo to kill people with. Politically, this was all during the Bush43 Regime, and if the dot-gov was snooping, we had no Snowden to tell us.

Now we are in the Obama Regime, and we have solid proof that extensive systems exist for the purpose of spying on US Citizens. I am likely on one or more lists of dissidents to be rounded up when "that day" comes, if it ever does. That doesn't bother me as much as it might others, because I have a plan for that day. It DOES bother me that my few regular readers might suffer the same fate though, and I have been wrestling with this thought for several weeks.

During this recent 3-week hiatus, I have vacillated between pulling the plug on the blog to ramping it back up to a full head-to-head opposition to the current Government. I still haven't decided, so I am going, for the moment, with a change of direction.

I believe that my most valuable role in conservative blogging is to illustrate the social issues of the day in terms of history, something you rarely find in the Main Stream Media. Today's other two posts, on the history of racial integration and the gay pride problem, offer a look at the new direction. If didactic isn't your thing, I'm not your blogger.

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I haven't totally sheathed the sword, but I have moved it from here to Facebook. You can find my public timeline under George Schneider. It has a local Northwest flavor, but I post in the TEA party circle hereabouts, and keep up on the 2A scene in my posts. Look for my timeline here.

Another thought I have had is to declare EMCON. Under that condition, I would presume that hostilities with the Government are imminent (or that they have already begun), not just possible or probable. If I go to EMCON, all my social media (including this blog) goes dark. I would advise all readers to give serious thought to what it would take for YOU to declare your personal EMCON. Analyze how you will make that determination. EMCON would likely be followed by mustering of Militia. Also give some thought to how you would respond to a Militia call-up.

November 08, 2013

"Wall Street is a casino inhabited by day traders and robots who are on the drug the Fed is feeding."

Word.

The only thing I would say different is to add the word "fool's" in front of "casino".

I've been saying these words myself for years.

Context: It was on Neil Cavuto's pm Fox News program yesterday, and the two were discussing the unreal frenzy surrounding the Twitter IPO. At the time, Twitter was selling at an unworldly P/E ratio of 50:1.

Yep, and the Dow set several records on different trading days this week.

Now, add in the sobering fact that almost a million people left the US labor force in October, and the current labor participation rate is as low as it was during the despair and malaise of President Carter's presidency.

The picture of the US economy which emerges is very ugly. Very deliberately, the current masters of that economy have built a house of cards which they are calling a fortress. The slightest puff of an ill wind brings it all down.

November 06, 2013

This article begins to speculate that perhaps Obama's de-facto purge of US military leadership has a sinister, a VERY sinister intent: Could Obama be desirous of having total personal (not just military, PERSONAL) control of US nuclear weapons?

His purposes for that could be only one of two:

To order immediate and total nuclear disarmament, bypassing Congress.

To be able to bypass all the remaining controls and be able to use nuclear weapons for purposes other than military.

Total PERSONAL cointrol of the nukes, as opposed to National Command Authority control, which he already has, would enable him to say, give control of them to Valerie Jarrett, who is not in the NCA chain below him. It is said that VJ is the one actually behind the purges of the military leadership. She wants Obama to have an absolute command of the military to be able to use the troops to enforce political directives, which they currently would not do.

Here are two messages for VJ:

You can fire all the generals you want, ma'am, but they don't do the fighting. In fact, if the grunts don't have leadership which inspires them to fight, they won't fight.

All you are doing, Mizz VJ, is generating a fine set of leaders for the coming revolution, which will certainly arise at the first serious Constitutional provocation, say, the directed abandonment of the Second Amendment. BTW, the entire military you will have left at that point, due to mutiny and mass desertions, will be those few Obamabot generals and colonels. The rest of the military will self-disband and join the Resistance, probably arming it to the teeth as they do so.

I would be VERY worried about a nuke-enabled Chicago Mafia in that case, because they would be badly outnumbered, and likely to try to use some of those nukes on the mutineers. Hopefully, they haven't the tech smarts to do that...

If Obama shows the first concrete sign of wanting to bypass the proper nuke-deployment rules, he and his gang should be removed from office by force, with extreme prejudice.

Right out of the box, the US military spends billions on both communicating securely and on intercepting supposedly-"secure" communications. You can never assume, if you've gone all tactical and your adversary has access to US Military hardware, that your comms will NOT be intercepted. If a highly advanced adversary wants to intercept, it will intercept.

Now, let's ge down to reality here. A scenario:

You are in the field with one or more buddies, all trying to accomplish a paramilitary goal against an advanced, armed adversary. Communication is vital, because you are attempting your mission from different quadrants, and you have to be able to communicate with your sub-units. You don't need great range, you are not going to be more than 5 klics apart on the mission. Your first advantage is to have comms than use low transmitted power. The lower the power, just enough to get through, the less chance of interception. The second thing you want is some sort of encryption. You don't want to use somethng like Citizen's Band, which only works "in the clear", and which anyone with a transceiver can intercept just by scanning the 40 channels available. Marine VHF is out, for the same reason, unless you have a set of the rare ones built with encryption modules (believe it or not, these have been built for over 25 years).

Both CB and Marine VHF are analog systems and you want digital. For almost twenty years, the Family Radio Service has been available. The General Mobile Radio Service has been available for longer than that. FRS/GMRS radios are available and are very inexpensive. Your privacy is limited to being able to reset to any of the 15 GMRS channels, and selecting any of the 121 privacy codes. If my math is correct, that gives 15!x121 choices, tens of thousands. Yes, a computer programmed for the work COULD monitor all of those channel/code combinations, but what are the chances that you would run into this level of enemy electronic capability on your field mission? My guess is slim, especially if the conflict had just started. Also important is that you are not using a NSA-monitored satellite system. That is mandatory, IMHO, since with the NSA's supercomputers, any monitored system could have it's signals analyzed and patched out to the field in nanoseconds, but any NON-monitored system can only be monitored by specific equipment, locally set up for the purpose, and with very short range involved, that would mean tens of thousands of monitoring units would be required. The Surveillance State may eventually reach that status, but it hasn't for the moment.

So, we will probably use FRS/GMRS radios in the field. What about doing something besides talking on them? What about having and using GPS, sending digital GPS position reports, using 1:24,000 digital topo maps with GPS coordination, sending NON-voice messages (texts)? There IS one piece of equipment that will do all of these things. It is made by Garmin, and is the Rino 650-series (basic 650 model and more loaded 655 model with a camera). I'm not sure of the tactical advantage of the camera, so I would save the $100, or buy a couple of spare batteries with it. There is also an available computer program which makes any laptop computer into a Base Unit to control a suite of Rinos.

Take a gander at the owner's manual. There's no substitute for durability in the field, and Garmin has that in spades.

May 14, 2013

This may be the definitive word for this Administration: States have no powers, even within their own borders, and their Laws are ALWAYS inferior to Federal law (and edicts made without benefit of law, it seems).

Couple of observations: first, this is the exact position of the Federal Government which started the Civil War. Note that the "State's Rights" position this time has a tad more MORAL basis. Second, there has been a sea change in the attitude of the Feds which brings on this statement of Holder's: he would NEVER have made this statement seven months ago.

The Imperial Presidency has just been declared.

You can either bow your back like a good imperial subject and put up with the Imperial Presidency and all the corruption which goes with it, or you can grab your ruck and rifle, then leave your home for the last time.